Do you think with the increase in population the added weight could affect the earth?

Question

Do you think with the increase in population the added weight could affect the earth?

Answer 1

Not~~with all the natural disasters that are occoring at the moment we are decreasing the world pop and such as weight!!

Answer 2

You did not state what aspect of the earth to which you are referring.  If you mean the orbit, tilt, rotation or revolution, then my answer is:

It depends on how much the population increases.  However, it is highly unlikely that the world's population would increase to the point that it would affect the earth in the above ways.

Ecosystems, habitats, and resources are more likely to be affected by a large increase in population.

Answer 3

The increase of the population is not actually adding weight. We are what we eat. The food is transformed into body cells and these cells are used to make a new human being. Since our food is coming from the earth, we are all made with what was already on earth so no mass is added by the birth of millions or billions of new people.

Answer 4

No, because people weigh less than dinasaurs.

Answer 5

Populations don't add weight to the planet. The elements that individuals are made of are already on the planet, with the exception of particles coming in from space, which is more or less negligible.

Answer 6

Actually, the added weight will have profound consequences.  The effect will not be in the mechanics of the earth because the total mass of the earth, including its humans, will not change.

However, the effect on the earth must include the changes in the topography needed to raise food to maintain the added weight of humans.  More hungry people means that there will be a greater demand on the land and sea to provide additional food.  This demand continues to grow.

Thus, the effect will not be gravitational, but it will be geographical and biological.

Answer 7

Just assuming that we could plop 6.6 billion humans on the planet, which hadn't been there before.  The Earth would barely feel it.

The mass of the Earth is about 5.9742 × 10^24 kg.  The average human has a mass of 75 kg.  There are roughly 6.6 billion humans on the Earth.  So, the total mass of humans on the planet is about 5 x 10^11.  The effect can be determined by dividing the humans' mass by the Earth's mass.  The effect turns out to be practically zero.

Right now, humans make up 0.00000000000008% of the planet's mass.  We are quite literally--on a planetary scale--microscopic.